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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461211003321

Autore

Woods Peiró Eva

Titolo

White Gypsies [[electronic resource] ] : race and stardom in Spanish musicals / / Eva Woods Peiró

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4529-4588-8

0-8166-7949-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6552

Soggetti

Romanies in motion pictures

Musical films - Spain - History and criticism

Race in motion pictures

Ethnicity in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures

Romanies - Spain - Andalusia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility -- Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s -- Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties -- Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore -- The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation -- The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer -- Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.

Sommario/riassunto

Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940's and '50's are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race-especially, but not only, Gypsiness. Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain-with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality-Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed